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Musa Juma al-Tallka

The newspaper story about Tallka

Musa Juma al-Tallka (1952-) was a Palestine Liberation Organization guerrilla who was one of the perpetrators of the March 1975 Savoy Hotel attack in Tel Aviv, Israel. al-Tallka was born in Jordan to a family of Palestinian refugees, and he joined the PLO, taking part in the takeover of the Savoy Hotel and the fight against the Israeli rescue team. al-Tallka was the sole survivor of the raid, and he was sentenced to death by hanging in March 1976, although his sentence was later commuted.

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